Blowie Plague
Submitted by carnarvonite on Thu, 2008-10-16 15:03.
Mate and I went for a fish/crab this morning HA HA big joke
Got a few undersize bream but for every one landed we got 2 blowies--not your piss ant little one but nor west buggers ,one after the other.About 20 of the pricks.We went to do the first pull of the nets--no bait,wires bitten through,rope with chunks out of them and holes in the nets.Usually we have a bit of a problem with tiger bities but nothing as bad as this.
Oh well ,if you don't have a go you'll never know----now we know
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Colin Hay
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I hope they don't head south
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carnarvonite
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I HOPE THEY DO
Then we will be rid of them,give others some sport catching them,all at least 70cm long.Good fight on light gear
Colin Hay
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Thanks for the offer Carnarvonite
But we decline the offer. You are welcome to our billions of smaller blowies if you want.
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carnarvonite
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You're Welcome
No problems there,our big buggers will clean up those little pests in no time at all --and grow even #@$#@# bigger and more bad mannered
Colin Hay
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That would be a good result if they could demolish
our blowie plague.We just have to work out how to then get rid of the bigger ones. Reminds me of this story about Cane Toads.(Colin 1 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)
Dreamweaver
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LOL #1
Touche!
John - don't send them too far south please - I'm happy with NO blowies
, not that I rubbing that in again of course 
. Seriously, I feel for you - been up to Jurien a few times and got hammered by them - bloody awful things. Real tackle snachers.
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GOATRUTAR
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Not at my house! IF IT
Not at my house!
IF IT SMELLS LIKE FISH IT MUST BE GOOD FOR YOU!
mitch
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so im told there flesh makes
so im told there flesh makes for quality bait .dont suppose you kept any to give a try .maybee even load the crab nets up with them .
always in it just the depth that varies
roberta
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Hi mitch
got friends that if they do catch these horrible blowies (usually around craypots that have just been baited in Leeman) they put them in their cray pots for bait. Hubbie if he gets any kills them opens them up and you'd be surprised at the good hooks he gets out of them, mostly his he he ugh.
SPEWIE LEWIE
Hobie-Wan
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Blowie holocaust
I think we need to have blowie purging days - like an annual weigh-in day. It would be fun and also rid the Swan of some serious pests. The governments official line i that the blowies are native, part of the ecosystem and should be returned when caught - unkilled.
We all know that is nonsense - particularly in the Swan where NOTHING is native. Yes - the Swan used to be freshwater until C.Y. O-Connor blasted out the sill at fremantle - thus allowing the sea to flow up-river, creating an estuary. So the blowies are not native in the swan - neither are the tailor, bream and dolphins!
Imagine the shores lined with people for a whole day actually TRYING to catch blowies... i think thier numbers could take a dive, surely?
Rodrat
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Nor west blowies
Caught one once of learmonth jetty in Exmouth.
Filleted it and used the flesh for bait.
Big thick white flesh, worked!
Dale
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Mmmm, underwater bolt
Mmmm, underwater bolt cutters. Caught a few of them in my time.
Cheers
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kinga86
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They go incredibly hard on
They go incredibly hard on light-medium gear I must say. We got a good sized one near the ASI rock groyne out in the dinghy a while back and it put on a show! I thought it was a juvi sambo until it poked its ugly head up.